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The Illinois Court of Appeals blocked an attempt by a charitable trust beneficiary to bring claims to recover improper distributions to family members made by a former trustee, where the distributions to family members were made in breach of the former trustee’s fiduciary duties and while failing to make specific distributions to numerous charities

In 1993, beneficiaries of their father Kenneth J. Stuart’s (Stuart Sr.) estate filed an action against their brother, Stuart Jr., as executor under Stuart Sr.’s will and as trustee under Stuart Sr.’s trust, alleging that Stuart Jr. had misappropriated property from the estate for his own benefit without their consent and in contravention of Stuart Sr.’s estate plan